Photography II

Photography

I've decided that one technology that i would like to explore further is photography, which is helpful as we are visting the bradford media museum next week, so that should be good help.

I've started to look at and record in my sketchbook the different types of photography processes and experimenting with my new slr, trying all the different features and lenses on it.

Thermal Paper

In the previous videos, myself and Hannah became intrigued with thermal paper, we both left last night and went on hunts in different directions for it, i went into town and she went to a retail park, both of us desperatly trying to find some and experiment with the mark making on it.
Unluckily, until today i couldnt manage to get any for myself, so hannah experimented with it last night and got some interesting mark making.
We used this in our presentation and got a volunteer to make some marks of thier own with a glue gun and hair dryer...

Fax Machines

Yesterday we where given a brief to make a presentation about a technology, we where asked to do this in pairs and myself and Hannah decided to work together, and after much deliberation, we choose to investigate something which was around us, however we did not know much about, and this was therefore Fax Machines.

We started out looking at the history and creation of the technology, and then looked at some of the problems with it.
One interesting fact we found was that a thing called a "Black Fax" is something that was and still is sent to coorperations with black pieces of paper sent through on a loop, continually faxed to a corporations machines, this causes the recieving fax machine to go into overdrive, which can lead to the fax machine and network to fail completely.

One video which we found, and found extremely helpful, was The secret life of machines - fax machines, which was presented by Tim Hunkin, which taught us some great ideas that we put into our presentation...

Definition...

1.
a. The application of science, especially to industrial or commercial objectives.
b. The scientific method and material used to achieve a commercial or industrial objective.
2. Electronic or digital products and systems considered as a group: a store specializing in office technology.
3. Anthropology The body of knowledge available to a society that is of use in fashioning implements, practicing manual arts and skills, and extracting or collecting materials.

Finally...

Ever since i got my SLR, i have yet to plug it into the computer and upload images, as i thought i'd left the software disk at home. Well turns out there was no disk, so i finally uploaded them. (Another example of my cba attitude to technology).
So anyway, i thought i would put a few of the photographs on here, as they represent me playing around with the new technology which of course was my camera, and also represent a past history of my technology uses in the few months before the briefing...

MyTech

I decided to look at all the things in my room, and look at what technologies i had at hand...

CommTech

Today i finally looked at some technologies which occur within my daily live, and i decided that would keep a diary of what technologies I use each day during the rest of the brief, just to get a eneral idea of what it is i use, and if i'm really as energy effiecient as i think i am...

So far i've come up with that generally, although i do not like technology (this blog is going to be such a chore to me) i do, without doubt, love my ipod, my ipod dock, and my mobile.

Other technologies i use regularly and am happy to use are the likes of my Slr, and the wonderment that is youtube!
However i do think that my use of technology has slackened somehwat over the past few years. I'm not online as much as i used to be, or actually using the same things as i did back then. Even social networking has changed for me, as i remember my first social networking sight being faceparty. When i tried to get back onto this, i was approached by a big lecture from the sight managers, claiming that they want to keep their sight the best, and therefore no newcomers unless you know someone who already has one, which i found, i must say, quite strange...

http://www.faceparty.co.uk/

Communication Technology

For this Communication Technology brief, i want to explore a variety of different technologies, maybe concentrating on photography and video.
I have a new recently established interest in photography and want to take this further and try and explore new ideas within this.
I also want to explore the depth of videos and the softwareused within the creation of them.
I do want though also to explore other technologies, as i feel that the photography and video could be done within another project, but this one is open interpretation, and is therefore gives me more freedom to explore things which i would normally not, therefore a lot of experimentation would be a good aspect of this brief...